Re: Non-responsive maintainer: pocock
Hi Daniel,
I would like to add to Ankur's point: while I understand that many of us are doing
Fedora work voluntarily and the expectations should be set accordingly, I believe we
should be open to accept help when we realise that we cannot realistically commit enough
time to the project. In case of asio, I have contacted you back in 2018 [1][2]. The pull
request I have filed [3] has been opened since.
The situation with asio right now is that Fedora with its asio-1.10.8 is not only behind
arch and gentoo (both at 1.14.0), but also behind debian buster (at 1.12.2). Resiprocate,
which is what was holding back asio update, has been retired due to FTBFS, then unorphaned
at your request, and then retired again after being orphaned for 6+ weeks [4]. There has
not been a successful build of resiprocate since 2016 [5].
Again, I perfectly understand that you have a backlog and that updating asio is not on top
on your priority list. Being sceptical about co-maintainership offers seems
counter-productive though, as there are things which need fixing and other people willing
to step in.
Best regards,
Julian
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551800#c2
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1638081#c2
[3] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/asio/pull-request/1
[4] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/resiprocate/commits/master
[5] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=15875